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  • Mez: Toking Up Trouble (2#) -

    Meredith Kercher Murder Case -

    I see that Charles Mudede has posted a brief blog entry about the verdict at The Slog. His trusted source assures him that Amanda Knox's trial was fair.

    This case revolves around drugs; if drugs hadn't been taken, in all likelihood, the' [...]
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    Posted: December 08, 2009, 3:09am EST

  • Mez: Her Mom's Grief (2#) -

    Meredith Kercher Murder Case -

    Arline Kercher tells the British Press about the nightmare she and the Kercher Family have been struggling through for the past two years. It's a life sentence they will have to bear for the rest of their lives.

    :: Chris Irvine :: [...]
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    Posted: December 07, 2009, 1:06pm EST

  • Mez: Spinning To Perdition (4#) -

    Meredith Kercher Murder Case -

    The Kercher Family conducted a news conference on Saturday in which they indicated that they were at peace with the verdict. It will never replace Meredith, but it will give them a bit of consolation. They added, this is not an occasion for [...]
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    Posted: December 06, 2009, 2:53am EST

  • Mez: Condemned (3#) -

    Meredith Kercher Murder Case -

    Andrea Vogt describes the scene in the courtroom when the verdict was read. The jury's treatise will be issued in 90 days. The Kercher Family will comment Saturday, Dec 5th. [SPI]

    # Amanda Knox has been condemned to 26 years in prison [...]
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    Posted: December 05, 2009, 3:44am EST

  • Mez: Verdict In -

    Meredith Kercher Murder Case -

    Amanda Knox: Guilty.

    Raffaele Sollecito was also found guilty.

    From: Andrea Vogt's dispatch at the Seattle PI.

    ... [...]
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    Posted: December 04, 2009, 6:23pm EST

  • Mez: An Odd Vision Waiting (4#) -

    Meredith Kercher Murder Case -

    The ABC TV Network will feature this case as a segment
    on their news magazine program 20/20 this evening.

    You know what I think is odd? Linda Byron [cf previous entry] said there were 15 other University of Washington students studying in [...]
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    Posted: December 04, 2009, 5:07pm EST

  • Mez: In The Role Of Assassin (10#) -

    Meredith Kercher Murder Case -

    "Ho paura di avere una maschera
    da assassina forzata sulla mia pelle."

    If it doesn't fit, you must acquit.

    Another Trial of the Century . . . In trying to understand what happened here, we don't know much more now than [...]
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    Posted: December 03, 2009, 8:54pm EST

  • Mez: Red Card Foul II (3#) -

    Meredith Kercher Murder Case -

    Some additional late links follow . . .

    # Barbie Nadeau in an exclusive for Newsweek Online suggests that whatever the outcome of the trial in Perugia, Amanda Knox has lost control over her own image.

    # Timothy Egan, a Pacific [...]
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    Posted: December 02, 2009, 11:27pm EST

  • Mez: Red Card Foul (5#) -

    Meredith Kercher Murder Case -

    Now comes Luciano Ghirga for the Defense, who contends that Amanda Knox was a victim of the crushing machinery of The System.

    In rebuttal, Prosecution argued that Knox was more like a coiled spring that was unleashed that night. "I saw the body," [...]
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    Posted: December 02, 2009, 8:03pm EST

  • Murdoch Pwns G News (3#) -

    Feel like a parasite? Gosh, that's harsh . . .

    I don't generally read my local newspapers online, primarily because their websites are too cumbersome and time-consuming. I usually just check the website of a local TV station for my local news if I haven't already watched it.

    [...]
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    Posted: December 02, 2009, 6:07am EST

  • Mez: Seeds of Doubt (4#) -

    Meredith Kercher Murder Case -

    Carlo Dalla Vedova for the Defense
    disputed the validity of the evidence
    and the merit of Amanda Knox's character.

    Does Motive matter? It is being claimed that the Prosecution has switched the motivation which they attribute to Knox.

    In the end, it [...]
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    Posted: December 02, 2009, 12:34am EST

  • Mez: A Cleansing Lens (4#) -

    Meredith Kercher Murder Case -

    Amanda Knox, if convicted, could walk free
    after only ten or twelve years in an Italian prison!

    And, even if appeals dragged on, she would
    get credit for her time served during the process.

    These are only two of the revelations about [...]
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    Posted: November 30, 2009, 9:31pm EST

  • Along The Malecon -

    Where Post-Colonialism Is Their Blockade . . .

    Our neighbor Yoani Sanchez across the Straits
    is in the London Telegraph this weekend, found
    in a nicely written article by Andrew Hamilton.

    Yoani has a lot of sympathizers and supporters in Germany and Eastern Europe, where they've had a' [...]
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    Posted: November 28, 2009, 6:39pm EST

  • Mez: Knox Parents Served (2#) -

    Meredith Kercher Murder Case -

    Andrea Vogt and others are reporting that Inspector Monica Napoleoni, in charge of the Perugia Murder Squad, has served Amanda Knox's parents, Curt Knox and Edda Mellas, with legal notice by hand via Caribinieri that they are under investigation for defamation with regard to [...]
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    Posted: November 28, 2009, 6:28pm EST

  • Our Friends From The North -

    We've had a bit of a cold snap here during the overnight and early this morning. The temperature dropped down to 50F. I had to use my little space heater to stay cozy. When it gets chilly like this, I tend to stay mostly in the kitchen.

    Trundled over' [...]
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    Posted: November 28, 2009, 6:13pm EST

  • Loose Links (8#) -

    Florida author Jeff VanderMeer from Tallahassee has a new novel out called Finch. It's a combination of Noir and the New Weird. Its protagonist is trying to solve a double murder, but in a rather strange world. Rick Klaw writes about it.

    # Josh Marshall has rolled
    out [...]
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    Posted: November 27, 2009, 6:10am EST

  • SoFlo: Targeted II (3#) -

    This is a followup to my previous
    entry about the documentary movie

    Miami Noir: The Arthur E Teele Story (2008).

    There are just a few points about this movie that I want to briefly address here. First, I think the title was an unfortunate choice because it leads [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2009, 10:31pm EST

  • SoFlo: Targeted For Destruction (3#) -

    Two stories that are fatally linked . . .

    Over the weekend, my little digital TV "lost" the local PBS channel. When I successfully rescanned, a film title came up on the screen, and I decided to watch the program.

    Miami Noir: The Arthur E. Teele Story

    [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2009, 12:26am EST

  • Mez: A Wilding II (2#) -

    Meredith Kercher Murder Case -

    I think it's important to add Barbie Nadeau's piece to the reading links for this case because it offers some worthwhile insights.

    I haven't been able to find Charle Mudede's reaction yet; thus far, the trial was only mentioned in passing [...]
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    Posted: November 22, 2009, 9:53pm EST

  • Mez: A Wilding In Chocolate City (7#) -

    Meredith Kercher Murder Case -

    Prosecution Summation: Were there
    any surprises? Yes, there was one at the end.

    But let's start at the beginning . . .

    Amanda Knox was nursing a seething resentment toward her roommate, Meredith Kercher, for making demeaning comments about her uncouth habits. [...]
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    Posted: November 21, 2009, 10:51pm EST

  • Book Fair & more (5#) -

    Florida Book Review's live blogging compilation page
    of the Miami Book Fair 2009, including the panel on
    Urban Noir, which was the main focus of my interest:

    -- Almost halfway down the page at the Sunday, Nov. 15, 12: 28 PM timestamp, the Urban Noir material begins with Jamie [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 2:35am EST

  • SoFlo: Buzzing & Biting (3#) -

    Cigar Buddies, The Dead Lady Lawyer &
    Something Gonna Bite You in the Butt . . .

    Sigmund Freud once said:
    "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar."

    True enough, but sometimes
    it isn't; and some folks live for that stuff.

    Sports columnist Dave Hyde shares his' [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 12:43am EST

  • Mez: Dark Contingency (5#) -

    Meredith Kercher Case -

    Rudy Guede has begun his appeal. Summations which will include the other two defendants, Knox and Sollecito, will begin Friday. This is the first time Guede has shared his story on the public record.

    "there's a black man in the house" ::bbc::
    [rather [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 9:09pm EST

  • Fanciful News Alleged -

    Too Much Pistachio in Their Rose Water ?

    OFCOM is reportedly investigating Press TV, an overseas apparatus of Iran's current regime, which is based in an enchanted neighborhood of London, due to carping criticisms and finicky nitpicking by the British public about the channel "breaching accuracy and impartiality guidelines."
    [...]
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    Posted: November 17, 2009, 1:54am EST

  • SoFlo: Press Clips (5#) -

    True Crime & Samizdat . . .

    An Intriguing Swap: A crime reporter from London is exchanging crime beats with a crime reporter from Baltimore, home of the hit TV show The Wire, according to reporter Dominic Ponsford.

    In Cuban Samizdat this weekend, The Miami Herald [...]
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    Posted: November 16, 2009, 12:43am EST

  • SoFlo: When You Become Option Three (2#) -

    Scott Rothstein Case -

    A careful study of Special Agent Gillies' remarks at his press conference seems to suggest that there may have been some money laundering involved in this situation. That may not be what Gillies intended to imply; but that is what I have inferred, and it' [...]
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    Posted: November 13, 2009, 2:07pm EST

  • SoFlo: Nothing Left But The Sizzle (5#) -

    Scott Rothstein Case -

    The story that people here are buzzing about; but his law firm PA was shuttled into terminal Chapter 11 today.

    The gossip currently circulating is about the Morocco connection. A new resort opened there called Mazagan, and speculation is rife that was Rothstein's' [...]
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    Posted: November 12, 2009, 7:12pm EST

  • Iran: Net Control Squeeze (3#) -

    Recent Iranian state security agency message
    sent out in email to ISP internet providers in Iran:

    "Dear operator, you are currently operating illegally and against national interest in cyberspace and should you continue these activities you will be determined a criminal according to computer criminal laws and you will" [...]
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    Posted: November 12, 2009, 6:11am EST

  • Havana's Cyber Sea Wall -

    Ted Henken, a professor at Baruch College is engaged in an academic study of the Cuban Blogosphere's development and its potential social implications, according to a Tuesday article in The Miami Herald written by Juan O Tamayo.

    No link to the article here because the newspaper's management now requires [...]
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    Posted: November 12, 2009, 6:07am EST

  • Face Off in Tokyo -

    The Captured Creature . . .

    Japanese police have arrested the long-fugitive suspect, Tatsuya Ichihashi, in the murder of British language teacher Linsday Hawker whose naked body was found in a bathtub filled with sand two years ago.

    In the interim, he has undergone extensive cosmetic surgery to [...]
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    Posted: November 12, 2009, 6:03am EST

  • Champions For Chumps? -

    Are our local mainstream metro-regional newspapers really the defenders of Democracy and the only things that stand between us and Dictatorship?

    Or . . . are they:

    "threats to democracy, championing the overdog, misrepresenting democratic choices, defending business, the police and local elites from those who seek to" [...]
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    Posted: November 10, 2009, 9:46pm EST

  • SoFlo: Beaming Her Up -

    Scott Rothstein Case -

    COO Debra Villegas has been named in a lawsuit brought by William Scherer of Conrad & Scherer on behalf of client D3 Capital Club investors, alleging that she has been engaged in the scurrilous transfer of real estate properties for the purpose of shielding them [...]
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    Posted: November 10, 2009, 6:10am EST

  • The Destiny of 9 November (4#) -

    Feeling torn between the broken glass and
    the broken wall? You shouldn't have to . . .

    Another file for the Life Can Be Complicated folder -

    One can't help feeling appalled at the success this project has enjoyed: the replacement of a somber day of solemn commemoration [...]
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    Posted: November 09, 2009, 5:11pm EST

  • Bookish: Killing Our Stories? (9#) -

    Ben Macintyre tells us
    that the internet is killing storytelling.

    A provocative and worthwhile
    essay at the UK Times from Nov 5th.

    "The internet... does not really 'do' narrative."

    :: This link is iffy; or try this alternate.

    ******************************************
    # In an excerpt from [...]
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    Posted: November 09, 2009, 2:21am EST

  • SoFlo: The Maybe Hustle (3#) -

    Scott Rothstein & Alias "Regret" . . .

    The colorful lawyer who dressed in Damon Runyonesque style and talked like he thought of himself as a comic book character has been in seclusion and out of the public eye since he returned to Florida. Meanwhile, the TD Bank [...]
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    Posted: November 07, 2009, 6:26pm EST

  • Discovering Cuba -

    Our Neighbor, Yoani Sanchez . . .

    Word comes in today via our local 6-degrees community network that Cuban state security agents yesterday attempted to forcibly abduct our neighbor across the straits, Blogger Yoani Sanchez; and that when they couldn't push her into their vehicle, they beat her up.[...]
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    Posted: November 07, 2009, 5:56pm EST

  • SoFlo: Rothstein Case Goes Noir (2#) -

    The bank that held the supposedly missing millions says they intend to cooperate with authorities who are investigating the matter. The lawyer, Scott Rothstein, was operating an investment business on the side. TD Bank maintained the account for it, according to a report at the Sentinel.

    There's also' [...]
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    Posted: November 05, 2009, 7:10am EST

  • SoFlo: Law Firm Upheaval -

    A prominent law firm in Fort Lauderdale has been the subject of many rumors, allegations, and speculations since the beginning of this week while the senior partner has been out of town.

    The law firm entity has now divorced the senior partner who supposedly returned today from Casablanca, Morocco.
    [...]
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    Posted: November 04, 2009, 11:49pm EST

  • Vanity Cult Magazine -

    Neal Ungerleider reports that
    the Al Qaeda Cult is publishing magazines:

    "Issue 11 of Sada al-Malahim... a dense little bastard of a magazine, clocking in at 73 pages of text, graphics and basic-Pagemaker design."

    He seems surprised, but the cult also produces videos and a variety of cult [...]
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    Posted: November 04, 2009, 11:40pm EST

  • Iran: Mind Swap -

    And only Atlas could perform such a feat . . .

    Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps is planning to take control over all media, communications and information coming out of Iran. They expect to produce their own Alt-Universe version of News in the future.

    By spring, they intend to' [...]
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    Posted: November 04, 2009, 11:31pm EST

  • Around The Net (4#) -

    Arab Bloggers from 19 countries
    are getting ready for a meetup in December.

    # Phantom town appearing on
    Google Maps and an explanation of sorts.

    # Megan Garber gives us the latest rundown on
    the WaPo Pundit Contest: it's in the Finalists phase.

    #' [...]
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    Posted: November 03, 2009, 8:46pm EST

  • Mez: Two Years On (4#) -

    Meredith Kercher Murder Case -

    It's been two years since Meredith Kercher, a young university exchange student from south Metropolitan London, was savagely murdered in Perugia, Italy. And her family is hoping the case will come to an end soon.

    The trial often seemed to progress in a' [...]
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    Posted: November 02, 2009, 11:43pm EST

  • Elusive Ghost Story (2#) -

    Remember the song Stella by Starlight ?

    Over the weekend, evidently, many people were disappointed to discover that they couldn't get a DVD version of the movie The Uninvited (1944) for Halloween.

    The movie is a classic ghost story and a real gem. Consequently, they are campaigning' [...]
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    Posted: November 02, 2009, 3:08pm EST

  • SoFlo: Bookish Notes (4#) -

    It was a dark and stormy night . . .

    Got a juicy story or a cracking good yarn?

    All you need is a writing implement in good condition and the seat of your pants applied to the seat of your chair in front of it, because it's' [...]
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    Posted: November 01, 2009, 5:23pm EST

  • SoFlo: Peddling Phony Solutions -

    The Herald's Voodoo Employment Program . . .

    With an air of smarmy self-righteous arrogance, a Miami Herald columnist urges us to grant Haitians special permits to get jobs here, and if we don't, maligns us as racists.

    Florida is currently experiencing a grim economic downturn. Thousands of [...]
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    Posted: October 31, 2009, 11:41pm EDT

  • Mez: Doorstep Services -

    Meredith Kercher Murder Case -

    What are we to make of Rudy Guede
    and the story he tells? Is his story credible?

    According to Rudy Guede, he became intimate with Meredith and then went to the bathroom. But, I have my doubts about this order of events. [...]
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    Posted: October 30, 2009, 1:44am EDT

  • LOOSE LINKS (4#) -

    In a somewhat lengthy article, Omar, son of cult leader Osama bin Laden, describes how he grew up. He and his mother Najwa have written a book with the help of writer Jean Sasson, which will debut November 12th in the UK.

    # John le Carre has left [...]
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    Posted: October 29, 2009, 2:23am EDT

  • Iran: Still Roiling (3#) -

    Hostilities erupted between regime supporters
    and reform movement supporters during a
    News Media Expo in Tehran, WaPo reports.

    :: Leaked: gag order for November 4th [irnn]

    I tried to post the above entry last night, but . . .
    Blogger was performing strangely, so I had [...]
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    Posted: October 28, 2009, 2:08pm EDT

  • The Virtual Gary Problem -

    Iranian officials created a CGI-enhanced cartoon character version of Middle East Professor Gary Sick and cast the character in a sinister light.

    "The Gulf/2000 network is an Internet project that began 16 years ago to facilitate communication and information sharing... And it is not engaged in overthrowing governments."

    [...]
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    Posted: October 27, 2009, 12:31pm EDT

  • Bookish: Strange Environments (4#) -

    Florida Post-Modern, Scandinavian
    Detectives, A Fabulist's NYC, and BoucherCon . . .

    More Than Wallander: Zack O'Yeah drop in to the Swedish Book Fair in Gothenburg for a look around and discovers that Mystery novels have become almost a cottage industry there.

    # An interview' [...]
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    Posted: October 24, 2009, 8:49pm EDT
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